As a leading girls’ school in Australia, St Catherine’s is committed to nurturing and empowering independent and globally responsive young women, enabling them to approach all their endeavours with confidence, wisdom and integrity. – St Catherine’s School Charter

As a School community, we help students find their sense of purpose in the world through an environment that integrates critical awareness, a social conscience and quality relationships. We inspire our students to not only own their learning but also understand and appreciate their own unique capacities and the world around them.

Boarding at St Catherine’s School provides our girls with a safe and comfortable living environment. They have the opportunity to make friends with girls from across Australia and around the world. Boarders are provided the freedom to socialise with friends and to explore Melbourne on organised weekend activities, as well as the opportunity to develop positive study habits and importantly, to have a lot of fun!

St Catherine’s prides itself on being a cohesive and unique School community. Current St Catherine’s families, along with our alumnae, future students, and current and past parents and staff, are all active, generous, enthusiastic and supportive members of the St Catherine’s School community.

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Early Learning Centre – Campbell House: The Ilhan Family Centre

Professor Susie Nilsson

Professor Susie Nilsson

BSc(Hons)(Melb), PhD(Melb)

Professor Susie Nilsson (Begg ’86) is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Head of the Niche Laboratory within CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering. She worked at Australian Stem Cell Centre for five years before moving to CSIRO.

Susie’s research interests are devoted to understanding the hematopoietic stem cell niche and mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cells. Her work has long-term impacts on how hematopoietic stem cell research is conducted and direct implications in the treatment of blood diseases.

She is the author of 65 publications, including 36 in the past 10 years, and during this time she has been invited to submit seven peer-reviewed publications and six book chapters.

In the past decade she has been awarded six patents, all of which are at various stages from provisional applications to national phase. Together, her contributions have led to 18 plenary invitations, 17 speaker invitations and 21 invitations to speak post-abstract submissions at national and international meetings.

Susie is an Associate Editor for Experimental Hematology and The International Journal of Hematology. She has been Chair and a member of the Emerging Leaders Task Force and a member of the Scientific Organising Committee and the Nominating Committee of the International Society of Experimental Hematology.

Outside of work Susie loves being a mum and takes great pleasure in renovating her house, cooking and being outdoors. She also stays fit by refereeing basketball.